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WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government

Posted by samzenpus on from the and-the-contents-of-your-locker dept.

An anonymous reader writes On Christmas Eve, as the National Security Agency was releasing a report on NSA employees' abuses of surveillance technology, Google was telling WikiLeaks about another sort of surveillance. According to a statement by WikiLeaks on Twitter, Google informed the organization on December 24 that the Gmail mailboxes and account metadata of a WikiLeaks employee had been turned over to law enforcement under a U.S. federal warrant.

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  1. April 2012? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1, Interesting

    According the fuzzy image of what appears to be some type of legal document that could have been produced with Word and was apparently filled out with a Sharpie, the event happened in 2012.

    Assenge must be desperate in that embassy to have pulled out the really damning stuff!

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  2. Re:Least it was a REAL warrant... by Rei · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They try to spin it as so malicious, including:

    This is at least the second time a U.S. warrant has been served at Google for data from someone connected to WikiLeaks. A sealed warrant was served to Google in 2011 for the email of a WikiLeaks volunteer in Iceland.

    Right, it's not like they had any probable cause of illegal activity back in 2011, no sirree.... You've got a Wikileaks volunteer who was at the time acting as an unofficial spokeman for the organization in the news, voluntarily coming up to them and telling them that Assange is working with Anonymous and LulzSec and ordering hacks and spying, including against US targets, and providing troves of data - are they supposed to just ignore that?

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